Kay Dew Shostak

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2015
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Chancey

1 - Next Stop, Chancey (Apr-2015)
2 - Chancey Family Lies (Sep-2015)
3 - Derailed in Chancey (Mar-2016)
4 - Chancey Jobs (Aug-2016)
5 - Kids Are Chancey (Aug-2017)
6 - A Chancey Detour (Jun-2018)
6.5 - Christmas Crisis in Chancey (Oct-2018)
7 - Secrets are Chancey (May-2019)
8 - Chancey Presents (Oct-2019)
9 - Hope Is Chancey (May-2021)
10 - Chancey Moves (Jun-2022)

Florida

1 - Backwater, Florida (Feb-2017)
2 - Wish You Were Here (Jan-2018)

A Southern Beach Mystery

1 - The Manatee Did It (Apr-2020)
2 - The Sea Turtle Did It (Jun-2020)
3 - The Shrimp Did It (Oct-2020)
4 - The Shark Did It (Aug-2021)
5 - The Gator Did It (Nov-2022)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • Next Stop, Chancey

    Chancey - 1

    Looking in your teenage daughter's purse is never a good idea. When Carolina does, she ends up accidentally selling their home in her beloved Atlanta suburbs to move into her husbands dream home. It's a big, old house beside a railroad bridge in a sm...

  • Chancey Family Lies

    Chancey - 2

    Humourous Southern Fiction set in North Georgia Mountains in Railfan B&B.  Carolina is barely surviving the family's move to a small town in Georgia, where they opened a Railfan B&B. She misses her Atlanta suburbs and is finding out holidays are ...

  • Derailed in Chancey

    Chancey - 3

    Carolina's in-law's marriage didn't survive the holidays visiting in her and Jackson's new home in Chancey, Georgia. Now both families have left, but she's not sure how much longer she'll still be in the small town. She knew moving teenagers from ...

  • Chancey Jobs

    Chancey - 4

    Aren't Small Towns supposed to be Boring?

    Overnight, a shiny new business opens on Chancey, Georgia's Main Street, with a manager straight from New York City, who doesn't find the South charming, at all. Carolina's bookstore is also opening...

  • Backwater, Florida

    Florida - 1

    Growing up as just plain ol' trailer trash in South Georgia, Becca Sue has floated along on a sea of low expectations for 30 years. Now she's washed up on the coast of Florida, but not on the beach. She finds herself in an unfinished luxury subdiv...

  • Kids Are Chancey

    Chancey - 5

    "A mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child," they say. But is it true? What if your children are all miserable, Carolina wonders, but your life is finally coming together? It's been almost a year since Carolina, her husband Jackson, and th...

  • Wish You Were Here

    Florida - 2

    Used to a lifetime of no one caring where she was, Becca Sue's not sure she likes it when everyone wants her with them. The luxury subdivision she inherited is on it's feet as Backwater, Florida. With the market and shops, it's now a multi-use com...

  • A Chancey Detour

    Chancey - 6

    Aren't detours supposed to have big warning signs? So why do life's detours come out of the blue and hit so hard? It's been a year since they opened the Bed & Breakfast for Railfans in the small town of Chancey and the Jessups feel as if they've a...

  • Christmas Crisis in Chancey

    Chancey - 6.5

    Christmas Novella set in the popular fictional town of Chancey, Georgia. Whether this is your first trip to Chancey, or you're an old friend - Welcome! Missus has called an emergency meeting and this is one meeting you don't want to miss. Christma...



  • Secrets are Chancey

    Chancey - 7

    Could there be a better setting for a movie than Chancey, Georgia?

    October arrives with Carolina holding way too many secrets...or you could say NOT holding them exactly. The town has barely gotten over the loss of their patriarch F.M. when ...

  • Chancey Presents

    Chancey - 8

    Pretty paper and bows make promises the gift inside rarely keeps.

    December comes to Chancey with promises of new birth, new love, new opportunities all tied up with shiny bows. Christmas is making a comeback in Chancey with Missus Blue ribbo...

  • The Manatee Did It

    A Southern Beach Mystery - 1

    Jewel Mantelle has never lived in the South, much less on the coast, so moving from Chicagoland to the historic North Florida coastal town of Sophia Island seems like just the adventure to fix her marriage. However, when she arrives she finds that it...

  • The Sea Turtle Did It

    A Southern Beach Mystery - 2

    False crawl? Nesting season? Turtle monitors?Jewel Mantelle is just getting used to the humidity in her new Southern home on Sophia Island when turtle season opens way too early. At least it's too early according to her friends who volunteer with the...

  • The Shrimp Did It

    A Southern Beach Mystery - 3

    Jewel and Craig Mantelle made it through their kids' first visit to their island home, a fixer-upper inherited from Craig's long-lost aunt, but it didn't go as smoothly as Jewel had planned. Craig is now back in South Florida, not answering her calls...

  • Hope Is Chancey

    Chancey - 9

    It's a new year in Chancey, and hope abounds. Carolina hopes her daughter, Savannah, will figure out what she's doing after graduation, hopes her husband, Jackson, working from home won't drive her crazy, and hopes being a grandma to her son Will's n...

  • The Shark Did It

    A Southern Beach Mystery - 4

    It's August on Sophia Island, and that means hurricane season is in full swing. Everyone keeps telling Northern newcomer Jewel Mantelle not to worry-yet. They'll tell her when it's time to worry. Against their advice, she's been staying up late watch...

  • Chancey Moves

    Chancey - 10

    Tenth book in this popular Southern Fiction series set in the small North Georgia town of Chancey. Spring is in the Chancey air-almost. Spring means planning. Planning for gardens, weddings, babies, and spring break. But first comes the North Georgia...

  • The Gator Did It

    A Southern Beach Mystery - 5

    Book five in the Southern Beach Cozy mystery series set on Sophia Island off the Northeast coast of Florida. New to the South and new to living in a beach town, Jewel Mantelle, with their new empty nest, is looking to help her marriage. When her husb...

  • Pomp and Chancey

    Eleventh book in this popular Southern Fiction series set in the small North Georgia town of Chancey.It's graduation time in Chancey......a time for caps and gowns. For Pomp and Circumstance. For magnolias blooming and epic parties.And, apparently, f...



  • The Flamingo Did It

    Book 6 in Southern Beach Cozy Mystery Sure, folks may say having your house on the Christmas Home Tour is murder. But until now . . . did they really mean it?Sophia Island is decked out for the season. White lights line the Centre Street buildings an...

  • The Pelican Did It

    Seventh book in the Southern Beach Cozy Mysteries series set on Amelia Island, Florida. Empty nests friends and sleuths.A long-hidden discovery in the tangles of Jewel and Craig Mantelle's backyard reveals more family history than the Sophia Island M...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kay Dew Shostak has published 21 books.

The next book by Kay Dew Shostak, The Pelican Did It, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Kay Dew Shostak, Next Stop, Chancey, was published in April 2015.

Yes. Kay Dew Shostak has 3 series.
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